Video of Bush clowning around before Iraq war announcement

[chookie]

It is wonderful that Michael Moore is including footage of Bush mugging like a fratboy and pumping his fist in the air saying "FEELS GOOD!" before he announced to the American people that he was leading them into war against Iraq.

This shameful incident did not get much publicity at the time, but I recall that some folks here were circulating links to streaming media of this telling little snippet.

Anyone still have those? Any one by any chance manage to save it to their hard drive? Anyone even have stills from it?

I think the only people who are supporting this galoot at this point are totally morally bankrupt -- don't you? This Popular Wartime PresidentTM could go on tv tomorrow and decapitate Laura while the cameras roll -- and they would say we were all making too much of nothing! The mind reels....

They have managed to keep stuff like this out of the popular media, and thus lie about how splendid and glorious a leader His Chimperial Majesty is.

How the hell are the Flying Monkeys going to blame the LIEbral media for *this* little bit of video -- the Commander in Chief mugging and joking foolishly before announcing the grave issue of impending war? I guess they'll do an "Abu Ghraib" -- try to keep it under wraps and deny it, but when it gets out, claim that it's really not that bad, and that what is really wrong is that people would look at this unflattering view of His Chimperial Majesty in A Time of WarTM. I can see giving your guy the "rah rah", but when it comes to defending the indefensible? Yeah yeah -- it's not bad that these horrid things HAPPEN -- only that people find out about them. No doubt that they will do everything in their power to make sure the troops serving don't see it -- imagine how demoralized they would be seeing he Commander in Chief clowning around and pumping his fist playfully in the air before shipping them off to face combat in horrific conditions? Mind you -- it's not bad that Bush DID something like this -- only that people find out that he did, and make him face the consequences!

[Fridays Child]

1. Did Moore get the "feels good" part in his clip?

I was looking for that part yesterday but couldn't find it. Surely, someone archived it.

[Bozita]

2. IIRC, it was a BBC crew that turned on its camera early

I also remember viewing it from a link provided in a DU thread.

[thebigidea]

3. I've asked for this clip several times, but never got a response

a shame, it would be perfect for my... experiments.

it would be perfect for campaign commercials.

archive-searching resulted in frustration...

[Kurovski]

4. Bump

Why not?

[gulfcoastliberal]

5. kick

We want footage!

[Mandate My Ass]

6. Someone just posted that clip the other day

I remember because I had never seen it and I was anxious to watch but the computer I was using at the time wouldn't support Real Player or whichever software it was using. It's probably not archived yet. I'll look for it.

[Steely_Dan]

7. Soldier's Parents

Good post...I would love to see (even stills) the clip...Please someone find it.

I was thinking about how the parents would feel seeing Bush pump his fist in the air...what a dweeb.

How can anyone celebrate such a serious decision to send people into harms way? I don't understand this kind of mentality.

-P

[HootieMcBoob]

8. Here's some stuff

Not the fist pumping part but ...

http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/wonk/VariousMovies2/

[Lostnote03]

9. Whata Cheerleader!!!!!

.....spoiled adolescent move!!!

[TexasSissy]

10. Wow. That's really strong stuff. Can't wait for the movie

to come out.

[Don_G]

11. If That's True

I think Kerry should appoint a good prosecutor and a forensic accountant to examine the financial records of every cabinet member in GW's Administration.

I have the suspicion that we've been screwed and someone else made a mint off Dimbo's War.